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It would be cool for clients and protocols to be separated by an abstraction layer, it might change the n times m to n plus m but I suppose it's difficult
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago
It would be cool for clients and protocols to be separated by an abstraction layer, it might change the n times m to n plus m but I suppose it's difficult
- tcfhgj 1y agowhat do you mean? client - server - server like?
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoWe have precedent of exactly this. Pidgin implemented support for various networks under an abstraction layer and had a unified UI for all of them. XMPP implements this via gateways. I used to talk from XMPP with folks who used MSN or Yahoo on their end. We have gateways for Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal nowadays. The Nokia N900 used the Telepathy framework to expose a local D-Bus messaging service which itself connected to various networks (SMS, MSN, XMPP, etc). The UI was a single unified one for all these networks.